Some historical moments:   1986 Office Depot, Inc. founded and opening of the first store in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.   1960 Viking Office Products founded in Los Angeles, California. 1988 Office Depot (ODP) introduction at the New York stock exchange (NYSE). 1990 Viking Office Products (VOP) introduction at the Nasdaq stock exchange. 1990 Opening of the 173rd mega- store in the USA. Viking goes international; first European distribution centre opened in the UK. 1991 Acquisition of The Office Club, Inc. 1992 Viking call centre and distribution centre opened in France. 1992 Acquisition of H.Q. Office International, Inc. 1993 Viking brand call centre and distribution centre opened in Australia. 1993 Acquisition of Wilson Stationary & Printing and Eastman Office Products Corporation. 1994 Viking entrance in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg (via Paris).   1994 Office Depot goes international; first mega-stores in Israel and Columbia. Entrance in Ireland (via Leicester UK). 1995 Opening of the first mega- stores in Poland and Mexico. 1995 Opening of call centres and distribution centres in the Netherlands, Germany and Ireland. 1996 Opening of the first mega- store in France. 1997 Viking launched its first website in the USA; www.vikingop.com. 1997 Opening of the first mega- stores in Hongary, Thailand and Japan. Opening call centre in Austria. 1998 Launch of the American Office Depot website www.officedepot.com. 1998 Opening call centre and distribution centre in Italy.   1998 Merge of Office Depot and Viking Office Products. Viking Office Products becomes wholly owned subsidiary of Office Depot.   Office Depot acquired remaining 50% of our French joint venture operations. 1999 Office Depot acquired remaining 50% of our Japanese joint venture operations.   Viking launched it's first European e-commerce Web site in the UK.   Viking began business in Japan and opened our first call centre and distribution centre. 2000 Viking launched e-commerce websites in the Nederlands, Germany, Italiy, Japan, Australia and France.   Office Depot launched e-commerce websites in Japan and France.   Office Depot BSD (Business Services Divisions) launched in the UK.   Office Depot launched Vendor Extranet to provide Office Depot suppliers with a secured Internet access to monitor critical business information between both parties. 2001 Office Depot acquires office products business of Sands & McDougall in Australia.   Office Depot acquires its first online office supplies business, officesupplies.com.   Viking call center and distribution centre opened in Belgium.   Office Depot BSD launched its first European contract business purchasing website in the UK via http://BSDnet.officedepot.co.uk.   Office Depot acquires 4Sure.com and the businesses of its two Web-based retail outlets, Computers4Sure.com and Solutions4Sure.com.   The European contract business division (Business Services Division) expanded into Ireland, the Netherlands and France.   Viking e-commerce website launched in Austria. 2002 Viking commenced direct mail business in Switzerland.   Viking e-commerce websites launched in Ireland, in Belgium, (French and Dutch), Luxembourg and Switzerland (German and French).   Office Depot BSD launched contract business purchasing websites in the Netherlands, France and Ireland.   European Business Services Division expanded into Italy.   Viking call centre and distribution centre opened in Spain.   Viking commenced direct mail business in Portugal (via Spain).   Office Depot sells Viking Australia to Officeworks Superstores Pty, Ltd. 2003 European Business Services Division expanded into Germany.   Viking e-commerce website launched in Spain.   Opening first Office Depot mega-store in Spain.   Office Depot lBSD launched contract business purchasing websites in Italy and Germany.   Office Depot acquired Guilbert contract business.   Office Depot launched European websites with corporate information.